uucping whole trees?

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <529 at cdx39.UUCP> jc at cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) asks a long
question about uucp-ing whole trees.  Problems he mentions are:  preserving
links, free space for cpio output files, and keeping output files small
enough to get reliable uucp performance.

I sent John a long answer;  if you'd like a copy write me and I'll send a
copy.  The gist is:  links can be preserved by sorting by i-number;  ls -s
and a small shell script can then break the file list up into appropriately-
sized chunks and cpio/compress/uucp them.  You can even watch uucp spool
space a la /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct, and suspend for a while if it gets full.
My long answer contains most of an untested sh script to do this.
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	Geoff Kuenning
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